District 6-5A will likely return to its original form, according to the latest districting proposal from the LHSAA sent to school administrators on Nov. 20.

The change is spurred by the fact that Salmen is moving back down to Class 4A after spending the past two seasons as a Class 5A school. The Spartans official enrollment number is 993, putting them below the cutoff for Class 5A.

The next two-year districting cycle will run from fall 2026 through spring 2028.

When Salmen moved up to Class 5A in 2024, it created two, five-team districts in St. Tammany Parish as Chalmette moved into one of those districts that included teams (Fontainebleau, Northshore, Slidell, and Salmen) in the eastern half of the parish. While District 6-5A was reduced to five teams: Covington, Hammond, Mandeville, P

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